ACT OF FAITH

where religion meets the world

The selection for this year's festival has begun, Noorderlicht welcomes submissions and ideas from all over the world

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Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2007

Act of Faith

14th Noorderlicht Photofestival

Location: Groningen, The Netherlands

Period: September 16 through October 28, 2007

Opening: Saturday September 15

In one guise or another, religion currently pervades discussion. In a fire fanned by fear of Islam, resorting to religion has become acceptable in the West too.

Faith is back with a vengeance - as a source of certainty and stability, a safe haven, a refuge with its own norms and values, closely connected with the idea of a closed society that is based on tradition and brotherhood.

But what happens when this faith comes in contact with the surrounding world, an open society that is continually changing, based as it is on dialogue among various opinions? Ultimately the separation of church and state is one of the basic principles of Western society, and a globalized world, with its free exchange of goods and ideas, is a source of heresy.

God and Allah, the Vatican and Washington, holy scripture and law books, global and local, love and resentment: The Noorderlicht Photofestival 2007 investigates what happens when faith meets the world around it, where the collisions of different value systems lead to friction.

Act of Faith is an international group exhibition that will be accompanied by a special catalogue. Previous main exhibitions of the festival have drawn enthusiastic responses and are now touring all over the world.

Submissions can be sent directly to the curator: Contacter

At Consulter le lien you will also find:

photos, photographers and information of all previous festivals, gallery exhibitions and projects

touring exhibitions

photo books

contact details

Noorderlicht Photofestival, Gallery, Projects, Publisher

Consulter le lien Contacter

T +31 50 318 2227 F +31 50 318 2204

Address: Akerkhof 12, 9711 JB Groningen, NL

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